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Woman's 'Stomach Bug' Actually a Baby
Westport News ^ | Frank Juliano

Posted on 04/19/2014 6:37:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A woman feels a little ill. Not knowing why she's queasy or has excruciating stomach pains, she calls for an ambulance.

Shortly after it arrives, she gives birth -- to a baby she never knew she was pregnant with.

It sounds like a scene out of reality TV show, but, for Jennifer Scollin it was just plain reality.

Scollin, who lives in Seymour gave birth to her second child early Saturday morning in an ambulance while it was parked in her driveway.

That morning, she knew something was wrong, but "I didn't know I was pregnant," Scollin said in a phone interview from her room at Griffin Hospital in Derby on Monday morning.

Scollin and her boyfriend, Matt Dillman, have a 4-year-old daughter, Kelsey, so Scollin knows what it's like to be pregnant. But, she said, not all the signs were there this time around.

"I had been feeling fine until the past few days, and I had been getting my `womanly thing' every month until last month," she said.

Scollin said she thought she'd caught a "stomach bug" that was going around -- but she didn't attribute it to a baby.

Then, on Saturday morning, she woke up with sharp stomach pains and called Dillman home from his nearby job.

"I thought I was just stressed out at work, and I was planning to call my doctor for an appointment, but as it turned out there wasn't time," Scollin said.

Scollin's water broke moments after Dillman returned home, and he called 911 when the couple realized they were having their second child.

"He was going to drive me to the hospital, but we had no chance to do that," Scollin said. "We didn't know at first it was a baby coming, but once we did, it happened fast."

The ambulance crew asked Scollin if she could walk to their vehicle, and she barely made it.

"Two pushes and he was out," she said.

She delivered a son, whom the couple named Cole Michael Thomas Dillman. Both mom and son are doing fine and were discharged from Griffin Hospital at midday Monday.

Hospital staff wouldn't speak at length about the 9-pound-3-ounce surprise Scollin delivered, but Luanne Miller, director of Griffin's Childbirth Center, said in an email that the Griffin team took the odd birth in stride.

"This sort of situation is uncommon, but we are always prepared for anything," she said.

The woman's parents, Tom and Joanne Scollin, live nearby and Dillman called them on his way home, at 4:45 a.m.

"We arrived minutes after the birth," Tom Scollin said in an email. "I was alarmed, shocked to be told by my granddaughter that her mom had a baby boy. I looked in the ambulance, and both were in excellent shape. My daughter said, `Dad, I didn't know.' "


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To: ClearCase_guy

This.

Yes, on 1 hand I’m amazed by the thrust of this story.

OTOH as aangent, I’m disgusted, again, by the lack of responsibility lof trash like this. Endless sex and shack-up playing house is what we have wrought over the last 40 years.

The Pill changed everything. I’m not against the pill, per se, but it especially made sex far too easy, and easy for men to bring women down to the sex-object level.

This story is exactly why I am against extramarital sex. Kids are born unawares all the time into rotten situations. Since the pill, in truth the illegitimacy rate skyrocketed.


21 posted on 04/19/2014 7:19:10 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: nickcarraway
Hospital staff wouldn't speak at length about the 9-pound-3-ounce surprise Scollin delivered,

A 9 lb 3 ounce baby and she never realized she was pregnant ??? LOL

Sorry, not buying it..my wife delivered two children 9 lbs plus and there is NO WAY POSSIBLE no to know...

I could understand not knowing if the baby was wee one around 6 to 7 lbs...

22 posted on 04/19/2014 7:19:57 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: nickcarraway

So.... she knows what it’s like to be pregnant, but this was a big surprise. Didn’t the cessation of her period clue her in to anything?


23 posted on 04/19/2014 7:20:36 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Popman

LOL, I think there must have been a disconnect somewhere, no morning sickness? A bug? Yes, at three or four months you might think that, but by eight months...that is hard to believe.


24 posted on 04/19/2014 7:23:17 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Mastador1

you are too cute but what is mastador1?


25 posted on 04/19/2014 7:23:27 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Send your dollar to see the birth certificate)
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To: onedoug

Mentioned in #4.

Absolutely agree. At least, now that kids are stuck there.


26 posted on 04/19/2014 7:25:38 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Mastador1

Article stated she kept having periods.


27 posted on 04/19/2014 7:26:37 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Mastador1

I think she said she had her monthly up to the last month???


28 posted on 04/19/2014 7:27:10 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t blame everything on...uh...homos.

Shack-ups and random sex have been happening exponentially since the pill then abortion. Illegitimacy has skyrocketed despite “birth control”. What is really needed is sex control. My theory is homos took advantage of free-wheeling whoring by the populace at large to get sympathy. When sex is vitally overemphasized as all-important, it also becomes trivial and thus any kind of sex is OK.


29 posted on 04/19/2014 7:32:02 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: nickcarraway

Only ones who want to get married are the gays!


30 posted on 04/19/2014 7:35:07 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: exDemMom

YEAH...my kids made their presence known! Not to mention all the other things ...breasts like missiles.....etc

Sort of mind boggling!


31 posted on 04/19/2014 7:35:32 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Kackikat

Well, one doesn’t always have many problems, and they are often periodic. Additionally, she could have been suffering chronic gastro problems. Believe me. I’ve been pregnant after the chronic stuff came up, and it wasn’t generally any worse.

The question I’m shocked no one has brought up is, how could no one notice any weight issues? She may not be thin but she doesn’t look so fat (like the shack-up) you couldn’t see a change with a full-size baby?


32 posted on 04/19/2014 7:37:31 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: nickcarraway

Family mug shot?


33 posted on 04/19/2014 7:38:44 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Article stated she kept having periods.

Yeah not buying it. Though I have never played a Doctor on TV, I am aware that women can have some spotting or bleeding while pregnant, but it is not going to be the same as a normal monthly period. Maybe the baby daddy not hubby.

34 posted on 04/19/2014 7:39:12 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I think that’s pretty near the truth. The “gay craze” followed on the coattails of more “normal” adultery.


35 posted on 04/19/2014 7:39:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: onedoug

In many states would be considered to have a common law marriage.


36 posted on 04/19/2014 7:39:40 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Fai Mao

After something like 7 years of shack up.


37 posted on 04/19/2014 7:40:51 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I agree about why didn’t someone comment on her belly size or ask if she was having a baby, at least by 6 or 7 months.


38 posted on 04/19/2014 7:44:54 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They have enough money for a house, two sport utility vehicles and tattoos but not a small wedding ceremony?

Like that is something sacred now days?

39 posted on 04/19/2014 7:45:19 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: exDemMom

All that being true.... its whats not happening thats also a dead give away.....

Either they are dumb as a box of hammers or lying for reasons I cannot fathom.


40 posted on 04/19/2014 7:46:48 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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